Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

Jim Rutherford

We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.

Toni Simonetti

We've always said we have a number of strategic alternatives that we're looking at...We continue to do that.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. I think the men's team will continue to get stronger and stronger and we'll be winning many gold medals in the future.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Lara Rhame

We're getting to a phase where European data could have more of an impact because a solid U.S. economic scenario is so widely expected. The markets are also very thin, so traders aren't taking on large amounts of risk.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is a market that's just waiting to assess economic data later in the week and, of course, moving into the earnings season.

Frank Mauro

What this data shows is that New York has the greatest gaps between wealth and poverty in the country.

Robert Morgenthau

What this case shows is, number one, the importance of the federal data bank, and number two, the importance of keeping rape kits,

Bob Ball

When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

Francesca Dominici

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28 percent increase in admissions for each 10 microgram per cubic meter increase in fine particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects' response.

Francesca Dominici

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28% increase in admissions for each 10 mg per cubic meter increase in fine-particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine-particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects? response.

Pamala Vazquez

We would rather have the full report rather than get data we know is not complete.

Jay Jacobs

We've asked the facilities division to give us some information, what they think is reasonable that we could expect this to cost.

Sophia Young

We've always been the underdog, and it's the kind of the position we expect to be in.

Pat Brown

When we were younger, education was not an option; it was something that we were expected to do. I wanted to do something positive in the community where I grew up.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Michael Aspel

When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!

Brian Vickers

When it comes down to the last lap I can't expect anything out of those guys. If they go with me, great. But if they don't, I'm not going to hold it against them.

Willie Randolph

You don't know what to expect when someone goes through something like that,

Nia Vardalos

Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.

Mike Scioscia

To move Erstad, it would have to make the whole lineup better. It would be a significant move. You would expect significant results.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Jeffrey Immelt

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,

Ralph Norris

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

Edgar Bronfman

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Bruce Wood

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

Eric Nicoli

We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course.

Alex Yemenidjian

We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Gregg Thompson

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Ebrahim Patel

We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have willing workers and idle industrial capacity.

Guillermo Ortiz

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Alan Curtis

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a quarter of all industrial leasing across the country in 2005, and the size and volume of new transactions has remained strong for us through the first part of the New Year.

Khuram Chaudhry

We're finding that the data from the U.S. on industrial activity were pretty weak. It's so-so on the consumer although housing activity is still holding up. When you look at Europe, Sweden and Hungary both cut interest rates this week.

Andy Thomas

We're fielding a lot of calls from institutional investors looking to take positions in industrial real estate in Austin.

Scott Adams

We're just looking at commercial and industrial land in transitional areas.

Pat Green

We're basically out of ground. What we're seeing is less and less for people to look at. There's a lot of pressure on industrial land from a lot of different ways and residential is the most appealing.

Richard Wiles

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

James Ritterbusch

We're going to see refineries further ramp up gasoline production as they come back on line. Concerns about gasoline will fade as this results in increased stocks.

Brian Jennings

We're going to see a rapid growth in production and use of ethanol.

Dan Bailey

We're going to go into immediate production after the trials, ... We've been below the radar screen. We're in an industry that doesn't attract much attention.

George Pipas

Whenever production and demand are out of balance, you have incentives. Toyota and Honda have the advantage of a more clean-sheet approach, so they have capacity more in balance with demand.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Michael Price

When we heard about the Bay Street production and how wonderful it was, we knew audiences would love this musical and that it would be perfect for our first touring venture across the country.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

Gary Hufbauer

U.S. multinationals are still spending most of their R&D dollars here in the U.S. -- about 90 percent. It could shift, but it has not shifted yet. Where the link is weaker that just because a firm does its R&D here by no means means it's obligated to do its production in the U.S.

Luol Deng

When we went up, we couldn't stay up. We started making silly mistakes and let them back in the game. We struggled making shots in the fourth quarter and when they got the lead, they didn't look back.

Brian Doyle

We're making strides. Recently, we've played some games into the fourth quarter we felt we could win.

Robert Walters

We remain focused on improving key fundamentals of our business and making operational improvements that resulted in a solid quarter across the company.

Fred Hassan

We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Manson Hill

We're going to need them to play with the same kind of fire and emotion against Carrollton that they did in the fourth quarter against Elbert. They have been leaders all year. This senior class has shown a lot of leadership all year and we're going to need it.

M. Wolfe

We're going to go into Albany and try to go 6-1 (in quarter points). If we can do that then we can come home to Boise in front of our great fan base. I think 14 or 15 quarter points is what it's going to take to get into the finals.

Katie Leclerc

I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic.

Richard Kogan

What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

David Scurto

With the information we obtained during the meeting, we are now able to look at all the suggestions and analyze the data. If a suggestion makes sense from a planning aspect, we're going to look into it as we revise the Master Plan.

Guillermo Ortiz

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Mark Vitner

We're just now realizing how badly off the economy was in the second quarter, ... The wider trade gap, along with the weakness we saw in the business inventory numbers that came out this week and weaker construction spending, will probably result in a second-quarter revised GDP number that will be zero or even slightly negative. It will be an eye-opening number, but it's no more worrisome than what we've seen.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

Joe Francomano

With this jobless claims number, I don't know what the final figure would be, but some economists may have to revise their payrolls estimates.

John McLaughlin

Work has been undertaken to come up with a revised plan and a new application for an all-weather pitch to serve the pupils of Bell Baxter and to provide some community use. The meeting will give everyone the chance to see the plans and share their views.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Martin Brodeur

We're just worried about what we do on the ice. Whoever runs the ship will surely be a good fit for us.

Guillermo Ortiz

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Peter Chandler

We're just about through the earnings season. We have to go through this bump and grind. I think it will probably be like this for several months yet to come, until the market starts to focus on looking beyond the short term to the recovery that surely will follow.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Helen Sharman

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Philip Stanhope

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

James E. Faust

The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.

Katharine Lee Bates

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Jill Malko

We've asked her to do things that she didn't anticipate. She has played all these roles because of all the injuries. But she's the type of player that can play anywhere on the field and that's pretty hard to find.

Greg Nasello

We've always struggled to score goals. That's why it's been so exciting to see the girls put these type of games together.

Phil Hamilton

We've always defeated those types of things in full committee. At least when his bills die, he doesn't rant and rave.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Ed Pinckney

We reminisce a little bit about the run. But usually we argue over which team could go on the same type of run this year.

Jon Crosby

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

Zeb Simon

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

Tom Birchard

We're sort of in an unprecedented type of regime here as far as the amount of rainfall we received over the last 30 to 40 days. And some of our records go back pretty far.

Brad Dennis

We're going to teach them about looking for clues. You find clues, you find our subject. We'll be looking for what she was wearing. Her coat, her dress, that type of stuff.

Guillermo Ortiz

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Adam Ferguson

To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.

Henry Hyde

I wish to commend you for your vigorous defense of American values, including democracy and human rights, and for holding to account those who would threaten America's economic security through the systematic counterfeiting of our national currency.

Bruce Anderson

I would expect that there's going to be a more vigorous effort to refine and clarify the choices between the Conservatives and Liberals and that's only natural, given that the stakes go up with each passing day.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Rob Lowe

My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

Ed Gillespie

I don't anticipate problems. I anticipate a vigorous process.

Jay Vroom

We support a vigorous program of enforcement by state and federal officials to ensure that our products are used safely. Today's actions by the state of Florida demonstrate that regulatory officials continue to monitor and enforce the nation's rigorous pesticide laws. By following EPA's rules, we are confident that both public health and the environment are protected. This is proof that the regulatory system works and violators will not be tolerated.